For James Rawlinson, the NHS needs a thoroughly local approach to managing pressures, driven by a deep understanding of data. And the health informatics director at Rotherham Foundation NHS Trust reports that data analytics is already making a difference at his organisation.

“It’s been a real game-changer for us, it’s now used daily on an operational level, to manage areas of performance such as Theatres, Outpatients and A&E and we can now very quickly adapt to changes or share with commissioners".

The JAMs was a term coined to describe squeezed middle income families, struggling to get by, Cloud2 director Simon Hudson argues that the large number of NHS ‘digital JAMs’, threatens to undermine wider integration plans demanded by STPs.

Cloud2, a Yorkshire-based Microsoft partner providing digital transformation solutions to the NHS has today announced it has been named a finalist in the 2016 HSJ awards Awards for the Improving Care with Technology category.